ormer

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British An abalone, especially of the species Haliotis tuberculata, found chiefly in the Channel Islands.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An abalone.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An ear-shell or sea-ear; an abalone or haliotid; a large marine shell of the family Haliotidæ: formerly a local English (Channel Islands) name of H. tuberculata, more fully called Guernsey ormer, or Guernsey ear-shell, which is abundant there and is used as food. See cut under abalone.

Etymologies

French dialectal, from French ormier, short for oreille-de-mer, translation of Latin auris maris, sea-ear : auris, ear; see ous- in Indo-European roots + maris, genitive of mare, sea; see mori- in Indo-European roots.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

From Jèrriais ormèr, Guernésiais ormer, variants of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris. (Wiktionary)

Examples

In contrast, the five-year note was the best perf ormer as many investors bought this maturity and sold 30-year securities, taking advantage of the supply dynamics.

This contents and the demeaning language used in this article and the one by Dennis Ross are insulting not only to the present Iranian leadership, but also to the majority of Iranians including those who strongly oppose the Iranian administration such as the ormer Foreign Minister under Shah, Mr. Ardeshir Zahedi.

"Just in the past few months," [Bruce Bartlett ormer policy advisor for Ronald Reagan] said, "I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do."